Speech therapy through APS

[Anonymous]

You can't just ask for a speech eval. Well, you can ask but they don't have to do it in the public. You have to show real impact to even get an eval. OP, that means, writing a letter to the teacher to schedule a EMT meeting. That is just an initial meeting to talk about potentially gathering data. Then another meeting is scheduled to talk about any data gathered. After that, they may talk about testing. It's a long road. Even if your child were to qualify (and based on r's, I doubt it) they would be pulled from class in a group of 4-6 kids. Personally I would do private. Less disruptive and quicker. With private, they will do an eval and also do services without having to prove educational impact and your child will be seen one on one.

Anonymous wrote:Even if you go with private therapy, ask for a speech eval. If nothing else, the evaluation will be paid for, and you can take that to a private provider.

[Anonymous]

You get what you pay for, which is nothing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can't just ask for a speech eval. Well, you can ask but they don't have to do it in the public. You have to show real impact to even get an eval. OP, that means, writing a letter to the teacher to schedule a EMT meeting. That is just an initial meeting to talk about potentially gathering data. Then another meeting is scheduled to talk about any data gathered. After that, they may talk about testing. It's a long road. Even if your child were to qualify (and based on r's, I doubt it) they would be pulled from class in a group of 4-6 kids. Personally I would do private. Less disruptive and quicker. With private, they will do an eval and also do services without having to prove educational impact and your child will be seen one on one.

Anonymous wrote:Even if you go with private therapy, ask for a speech eval. If nothing else, the evaluation will be paid for, and you can take that to a private provider.

In APS this is called an SST meeting. There does need to be an educational impact. Is the speech issue affecting reading or writing? Communicating with teachers and peers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You get what you pay for, which is nothing

Sadly this is 100% accurate